Import other typescript modules

Question

I am trying to import from typescript file, which is in node_modules. That file is not transpiled and uses typescript syntax:

user.ts:

export const getUserFromToken = (token: string) => {
  return axios.get('/user', {
    headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${token}` }
  }).then(({ data }) => data)
}

I'm importing like this: import { getUserFromToken } from 'common-files/api/user', and common-files is a module registered in package.json.

When trying to compile, I get:

../commons/api/user.ts
Module parse failed: C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\xxxx\commons\api\user.ts 
Unexpected token (9:38)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type.
| export const getUserFromToken = (token: string) => {
|   return axios.get('/user', {
|     headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${token}` }

Which leads, me to believe, that it's not compiling the ts file, because when I remove string type, it becomes a valid es6 file, and it starts correctly.

In my tsconfig.json file I have:

"exclude": [
  "node_modules",
  "build",
  "scripts",
  "acceptance-tests",
  "webpack",
  "jest",
  "src/setupTests.ts"
]

I was thinking, maybe to exclude node_modules, except that package common-files, but don't know how to do that. Is there a good way to achieve what I want at all?

Import other typescript modules

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